failure has always been an option

hi i'm ky please tag me with #kyriarky instead of my url

[sayaka]

Luigi has gone TOO FAR

[thyrell]

so according to mtg official rules if you misgender your opponent its an automatic loss right. has anyone tried to tech this with grammatically complex or difficult to pronounce pronouns

[kyriarchy]

i'm not a judge or in any way qualified to comment on this really, but the misgendering has to be intentional and you're more likely to get an Unsporting Conduct yourself for trying to game the system like this.

[phaeton-flier]

I see a bunch of posts like this and they all seem to assume there's a huge undercurrent of anti-Israeli sentiment in the general populace such that Biden would easily cruise to victory if he did the right thing, as opposed to the truth which is that the average voter sees Israel as a sort of Middle Eastern America under attack by strange foreigners and would take all but the most couched and careful opposition to Israel's actions as a betrayal.

[hellstobetsy]

For context, Columbia University calling in the cops to break up anti-Israel protests is overwhelmingly popular (Source).

This is mainly because Americans, even young Americans, don't actually care about Gaza. It consistently ranks as the one of the least important issues in polls (Source)

Meanwhile, one of Biden's worst issues is inflation. Why did inflation go up? Because Biden sent stimmy checks, cancelled hundreds of billions of student debt, invested hundreds of billions into renewable energy to fight climate change, etc. In other words, Biden's biggest political weakness is caused by the things he did that leftists would theoretically like. A big reason Democrats think they should move to the center is because they ask Americans and Americans complain they're too left-wing more than they complain Democrats aren't left-wing enough.

And, you want to know the real bitch of it?

A lot of that is leftists' own fucking fault.

When Biden cancelled student debts, leftists said it sucked.

When Biden ended the war in Afghanistan (the most unpopular decision he's made by far, and the one that dropped his poll numbers 5 points permanently), Leftists didn't even acknowledge it.

When Biden sent stimulus checks, Leftists were mad that it was $1400 and then $600 and normies were mad it caused inflation. Everyone was mad at Biden for it! From a perspective of pure self-interest, it was a mistake for him to do it!

When Biden included a child tax credit that served as a mini-UBI to parents and cut child poverty in half, leftists didn't praise it, it was unpopular, and Joe Manchin kept it from being renewed.

Even on fucking Gaza, after months of protests that Biden should stop sending weapons to Israel, Biden today announced that if Israel invades Rafah he weill stop sending weapons to Israel. Leftists didn't even notice.

If Biden does, in fact, stop all weapon shipments to Israel this week, will any of the people calling him Genocide Joe go "Wow! We won! Thanks, Biden, I guess I will vote for you!". Will Biden turning anti-Israel win him a SINGLE leftist vote, to make up for even one of all the pro-Israel votes he'll lose? No. Of course not. You can't even fucking pretend, it's ludicrous. The only people who will notice Biden stopping weapon shipments to Israel are the pro-Israel people who'll be mad at him over it.

So, yeah, no shit the American people don't like Democrats doing leftist things. Whenever Democrats do anything even slightly leftist, conservatives say it sucks, moderates say it sucks, and leftists say it sucks. Everyone says Democrats suck when they do left-wing things! Except liberals, but they spend most of their time trying to defend Biden to leftists online, which is maybe a lost cause. Is it any fucking wonder those things are unpopular? It's a miracle Biden's been as left-wing as he's been, and if he loses in 2024 he'll be the most left-wing president in any of our lifetimes because I promise you no Democrat will make that mistake again.

[kyriarchy]

been a while since i've seen such a concentrated distillation of liberal gullibility and delusion, and their utter capitulation to fascism in the barest hint of a crisis.

Of course the protests ae unpopular; protests always are. The Civil Rights Movement was unpopular. The Vietnam protests were unpopular. 50 years from now we'll all agree that ethnic cleansing of Gaza was a sad, regrettable chapter of American History that we've learned from and moved past, except we actually won't, and the next time it's convenient for western imperialism to kill off a few tens of thousands of people we're going to go through this all over again.

But this post isn't about mass murder or history or our moral obligations as a society, it's about short-sighted electoral politics. So let's talk about that. Joe Biden's worst issue is the rise in inflation which, according this post, is entirely Joe Biden's fault for spending money and not the global pandemic that cost America $13 trillion dollars precipitating it. We are urged to consider these expenditures to be things "leftists would theoretically like"; apparently actually asking leftists in practice what they want is too difficult or inconvenient for OP. It is correct to say that without agitation from the left, it's unlikely we would have gotten any debt relief or stimulus payments at all. Nevertheless, the stimulus checks, the debt forgiveness, the renewable energy spending, all of these are meager compromises, far less than what those on the left have argued is necessary. Hillary Clinton herself recently tweeted the following chart, arguing the necessity and importance of Biden's reelection while also clearly demonstrating his failure to reach the emission targets he himself set.

still, we are expected to accept that any policy must be sacrificed on the alter of "practicality", that it's simply not reasonable to directly address the catastrophes looming on the horizon (or here already), lest we lose the next election and the Republicans make the disasters we've allowed to happen, happen even worse somehow.

This is all standard American liberal ideology, nothing new or groundbreaking here. The funny part though, is that after positing that 1. Leftists occupy a extremely marginalized position in American politics and 2. Nominally "leftist" policies are the direct cause of Biden's unpopularity, the blame is then placed on those same leftists for...not being supportive enough? As if internet communists could have convinced Joe Manchin to keep the child tax credit. As if pausing arms shipments for a week had any impact on Israel's assault on Rafah (in lieu of a ground invasion, air strikes have continued on the city without pause). It is correct that Biden's perfunctory gestures in the direction of Palestine will not win him votes from the far left. Whether his support of Israel will cost him support amongst voters who don't view Israel as "a sort of Middle Eastern America under attack by strange foreigners" (a deeply racist view, btw) remains to be scene.

In any case, we're left with the same ultimatum: The left must kowtow and do everything in their power to get centrist Democrats elected in perpetuity, lest the Republicans win and the Democratic is forced to move ever more rightward in order to compete. (Movement to the left is unthinkable, of course, as we are to believe leftist policies are unpopular and unworkable.) The liberal mind is shocked and scandalized that we are not inspired by this vision: a political ratchet whose inevitable conclusion is a steady and inexorable descent into fascism.

We are left with a question: If the Democratic Party's brand of neoliberalism is so popular and pragmatic, why are they in danger of losing? Here is where the furtive leftist is thrust onto the stage. A benighted, curmudgeonly creature, with no love in its heart for the benevolent liberal who deigns to let it scrounge among the crumbs and detritus of neoliberal exploitation. And yet despite our intransigence, and our small numbers, we are somehow held responsible for Democratic policy, and indeed, the success of the party as whole. To paraphrase Umberto Eco:

"Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the Left is at the same time too strong and too weak. Democrats are condemned to lose elections because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."

[cryoflovver]

Happy Mid-Autumn & Sukkot to my fellow Chinese-Jewish households! 🥮🌿🍋🌕

[fox-teeth]

Shana tova u’metuka / Good and sweet new year this Rosh Hashanah

(I recently learned griffins were of great symbolic importance to medieval German Jews and I want to bring them back)

[fox-teeth]

Chag sameach!

(on RedBubble)

[kyriarchy]

Wrestling’s loving and respecting community

me,  a harmels cishet person: Honk hoynk

ANGRY TUMRL AEW: 

[pasteboard]

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

[pigcatapult]

Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?

[gaphic]

'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters

[bassiter2]

Gay transgender activist Lou Sullivan spent years researching the life of Jack Garland, an obscure early 20th century transgender man who evidently loved men. He rifled though archived newspapers and letters in local libraries for any scrap relevant to Jack, and finally managed to get the completed novel published only very shortly before his death by AIDS in 1990. The book made a single run from a now-defunct publishing company, so a very limited number of copies of the book exist today. Approximately 30 libraries carry it across the US and certain sellers have another handful of copies available for upwards of $200+ each. However, I could afford to shell out that $200, and I think Lou would want his book to be accessible to the modern trans population. So I've bought a copy and scanned it and converted the pages into a PDF,

which is now public on google drive

and also Archive.org

[maimonidesnutz]

There’s a teaching in Judaism that one should carry two notes, one in each pocket. One should say “I am but dust and ashes,” and the other should say “the whole world was created for me.” They are seen as opposites; you check one when you’re feeling down on yourself and the other when you’re feeling especially full of yourself. The idea is to maintain balance, but I think the way to achieve full harmony is to realize how they are saying the same thing.

That’s why I have imagined them as a carbon atom. Carbon is a main component of dust (and ashes), but also one of the main building blocks of life. Carbon simultaneously encompasses all. It’s in us, it’s in the stars, the planets, the trees. We are built to exist, yet we are also the building blocks of existence. If we keep both in mind, we can live in balance all the time.

[hypokeimena]

obsessed with this comic interlude in talmud where rabbi yohanan helps emperor vespasian take his stuck boot off by quoting scripture

[hypokeimena]

obsessed with this comic interlude in talmud where rabbi yohanan helps emperor vespasian take his stuck boot off by quoting scripture

[radicalgraff]

"It doesn't have to be like this. We could have it so much better"

Calligraffiti in Chicago, Illinois

[radiofreederry]

The union busting firms are scared

[beanytuesday]

"Trad" Twitter

[stumpyjoepete]

Hebrew manuscript from Kaifeng, mixing in some Chinese too in order to communicate people's names.

[jacobandtheangel]

being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just *mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns-*

[meirmakesstuff]

WWII alternate history stories always go “What if the Nazis won.” WHAT IF THE JEWS LIVED?

[kanguin]

That’s actually such a good point about alternative history. So many ask “what if we got the bad ending?”, ignorant of the fact we did, that’s just a worse ending.

Asking “what if the Nazis won” allows one to live in the safe world where the Nazis were the root source of evil in WWII. Asking “what if the Jews lived” forces you to confront the fact that almost all of Europe was complicit in their eradication. Every European power, the United states, everyone involved hated the Jewish people. Everyone was complicit in antisemitism, everyone just sat back and let it happen.

It took an invasion of Poland for the UK and France to act, and it took a direct attack on the US for the US to officially get involved. All of the torture, enslavement, and murder of Jews before this were overlooked because not even below the surface, the German antisemitism wasn’t unique. And basically nobody has the guts to address that.

[reachabovethetrees]

Have you ever seen such joy and tenderness on a man’s face? NO. BECAUSE YOU’LL NEVER BE AN ETROG.